The President’s Diversity Council and the MLK Week Committee will lead a moment of silence and reflection on the 50th year since the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Wednesday, April 4, at 11:45 a.m. at the Brawley/King Bust, Vaughn Literature Garden, in the Humanities Quad. The rain location will be the lobby of the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.

Contemporary artist Dread Scott will deliver a free, public talk titled "Activism and the Erasure of Subversive Art: Imagine a World without America" on Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre of the Elaine Langone Center. A reception with Scott will follow in the Samek Art Museum.

Pamela Newkirk, Ph.D., a media scholar, author and award-winning journalist whose work highlights the historical omission of multifaceted portraits of African descendants in scholarship and…